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Evening Newscast 04-19-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Advocates for medical marijuana in Montana have just nine weeks to collect the 24,175 signatures needed to qualify an initiative for the November ballot.

A Kalispell attorney is denying professional misconduct charges that allege he put a lien on a client's property for non-payment of fees and then anonymous bought the property at a sheriff's sale for below market prices.

The Missoula County attorney has filed a motion to dismiss rape charges filed against a then 17 year old boy accused of raping a fellow inmate at the county's juvenile detention facility.

A ballot initiative announced today by medicinal marijuana advocates has the support of the Democratic Party’s candidate for Attorney General.

Yellowstone National Park staff will travel to nearby communities next week to talk restoration efforts with anglers.

The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court today to uphold a federal law aimed at people who have been convicted of repeated acts of domestic violence on Indian lands.

About 3,100 pigs were killed in a barn fire at a Hutterite colony south of Augusta.

A group campaigning to reform Montana’s medical marijuana law is getting a late start in collecting the signatures needed to qualify their initiative for the November ballot.

A man who was convicted of killing a Cascade County sheriff's deputy in 2014 has made a plea deal with federal prosecutors on additional drug and weapons charges.

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